Wild vegetables are healthy and delicious, but a mixture of the two can be fatal.

"Guan Guan singing waterbirds live on sandbars in the river." This poem "Guan Yi" must have been familiar to everyone, and it actually depicts the scene of young girls picking vegetables by the river in the spring. Hogwash is a kind of wild vegetable. It can be seen that the behavior of picking wild vegetables has existed since ancient times. In the past, it may be to satisfy hunger, but today, with the development of material civilization, wild vegetables have become fashionable again, more because of its unique taste and people's spiritual desire to return to nature. In the good spring, it is a pleasure to call friends and go to the mountains, forests and grasslands to pick wild vegetables.

Just pick wild vegetables also need to be careful, if the wild vegetables and other similar but poisonous plants mixed up, light poisoning, heavy is life-threatening.

According to reports by the Asahi Shimbun and NHK TV, five people in Yamanashi prefecture mistook daffodils for leeks this month and showed symptoms of poisoning. At this time every year, there will be cases of poisoning caused by accidental ingestion of poisonous plants. There are many mistake-prone plants, especially leeks and daffodils, scallions and daffodils.

Leeks on the left and daffodils on the right

Just recently, a 70-year-old man in Hokkaido, Japan, mistook the autumn daffodils in his yard for spring onions (wild leeks). After eating with his wife, they immediately vomited and had diarrhea. after being sent to the hospital, the wife was saved and the man died.

As Liliaceae plants, they grow in the same season, and their leaves are very similar. Autumn daffodils and scallions are indeed easy to be confused.

Autumn daffodil

Scientific name: Colchicum autumnale L.

Colchicus of Liliaceae

Autumn daffodils bloom in autumn. The florescence is from June to August. When in bud, the flower pattern is spindle-shaped, with mauve or purplish flowers, funnel-shaped, delicate, dignified and beautiful. Native to Europe and the Mediterranean coast, it has been popular since the introduction of seeds and balls from abroad in the 1970s. Gardens are often used as rock gardens or flower beds.

Its flower language is simple, which is because the autumn daffodils do not bloom until all the leaves have withered and fallen. Flowers grow near the ground and are known as "underground flowers".

But such a beautiful flower has a "snake and scorpion heart". There are a variety of highly toxic alkaloids in colchicines and bulbs. Oral administration of 6 mg of colchicine can cause death. It's more toxic than arsenic. After taking it by mistake, there will be throat burning, diarrhea, cardiovascular collapse, crazy words, sensory disorders, convulsions, muscle weakness, dyspnea, 50% of the poisoned person dies, the attack time is 2-6 hours, the death occurs within 2-3 days, and the poisoned person remains awake until death. If you have the misfortune to eat by mistake, you should be sent to the hospital immediately.

Scallions

Scientific name: Allium victorialis

Allium L. of Liliaceae

Scallions are also known as cold onions and mountain onions. The leaf is shaped like a deer's ear, so it is also known as deer ear spring onion. Also known as wild leek. "Qianjin Shizhi" records its nature and taste as "pungent, lukewarm, non-toxic." It has the effect of stopping bleeding, dispersing stasis, resolving phlegm and relieving pain.

In spring and summer, picking spring onions and tender leaves, making soup, pickles, making dumplings, or even eating raw, are crisp, tender and delicious. In Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, it is a precious food used for cooking.

Green onions and autumn daffodils distinguish, an important smell, green onions will emit a similar smell of leeks. Second, the stems of scallions are purplish red, while those of colchicines are not.

It is the turn of spring and summer, and it is a good time to pick wild vegetables. To be able to look for wild vegetables is certainly a happy event in the world, but we should distinguish them carefully and pick them carefully so as not to eat them by mistake.